Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know that such a condition continues to exist. How many of us have been advised to take certain courses "because of the personality of the instructor. Professor -- is a great man and you ought to know him." But how many times in such a case do we ever approach closer than the restrictions of the lecture hall allow? The superiority of the larger universities is due to the fact that their greater resources enable them to obtain men who are at once efficient teachers and intellectual leaders. Seldom, however, do we make use of this advantage which Harvard possesses...
This spring there will be constructed the first of a group of six buildings which when completed will be devoted to research and instruction in chemistry. This group is designed to be more perfect in equipment than any in this country and to approach the excellency of many of those in Germany, the country which leads the world in the study of the science of chemistry. The site of these buildings will have a front of 300 feet on the west side of Divinity avenue, and will extend westward towards Oxford street for about 400 feet...
...Sewanee, Vanderbilt, and Michigan. The field was slippery and treacherous from long rains, and neither side was able to score. The All-Stars had better team-work and gained more consistently, but were unable to score owing to the good defensive work of Smith and Schultz. The nearest approach to a score was when Fish, of the All-Stars, was downed on the 10-yard line after recovering a muffed punt...
...automobiles or carriages shall proceed in either direction on Chapel street between College and Norton streets, nor on Derby avenue, between the hours of 12.30 and 5.30. During those hours, all vehicles shall approach Yale Field through Chapel street from Norton, thence to Central avenue to Yale Field, returning by the same route. All vehicles coming from the sistion shall go through Meadow street to George, to Temple, to Elm, to Norton, to Chapel, or through State street by the same route. Going to the station, the route is down State and through Union avenue. Carriages and automobiles shall move...
...Thayer said that he realized the difficulty which he faced in attempting to fill the position of his predecessor, yet the knowledge of his inability to even approach the standard which Dean Amesset, was to him a hope and an inspiration. To accept the position of dean necessitated the relinquishment of an active and pleasant practice, but Mr. Thayer said that he felt no other course was open to him than to acquiesce in the choice of the Faculty...